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...Vichy submarine put out beyond the barges, was promptly attacked. The Admiralty Building-on that day the headquarters of visiting Admiral Jean François Darlan-was quickly cleared of the invaders. Vichy said that they were captured...
...military commander in North Africa, reported to Vichy that gunfire was nearing the town, but there was no detailed evidence that his native troops and French officers put up more than a token resistance. At 7 p.m. on Sunday, 16 hours after the U.S. troops landed, he and Admiral Darlan agreed to surrender Algiers. Over the docks, the flames and smoke were still rising...
Vichy's Admiral Jean François Darlan, the little officer with the big opportunism, returned last week from an inspection tour of Casablanca and Dakar, to which, said a Vichy spokesman, "circumstances give very special importance." Admiral Darlan professed himself satisfied with what he saw. Vichy's control over the forces at Dakar was strengthened by the arrival in France of a shipload of 1,300 wives and children of Dakar residents and soldiers. This brought the total number of such potential hostages in France...
Anglophobe Admiral Françcois Jean Darlan, chief of Vichy's armed forces, made a flying tour of French African bases. Over the Dakar radio he warned the populace that "new dangers hang over...
...Neither Darlan nor the dispatches mentioned two closely related reasons...